In the meantime, the smog is everywhere. Driving through small villages near Rybnik, about two hours to the northwest of the mountain and one of the cities ranked as the European Union’s most polluted, smoke poured out of the houses...

It would be a shame to miss this chance, said Jacob Funk Kirkegaard, a senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics. Photo The German election weakened Chancellor Angela Merkel, who needed six months to come up with a...

While taking the government to task for the way the campaign was conducted, including not allowing civilian monitors, the O.S.C.E. found no problems with the execution of the election itself, where more than 8.3 million people were registered to vote....

Under a pale gray sky outside the Parliament building on Friday, thousands of women raised red placards shaped like hands that read “STOP.” They demanded that the government stop pressing for new abortion laws and charged that the country’s leaders...

On Monday night, the White House directed reporters to a formal statement from the State Department, which said: “There is never a justification for this type of attack — the attempted murder of a private citizen on the soil of...

In a news conference with Moussa Faki Mahamat, chairman of the African Union Commission, the men were asked by a reporter from the China Global Television Network about reports that Mr. Trump described Africa as filled with “shithole countries,” a...

But the prospect of Mr. Xi as ruler in perpetuity has scrambled the equation. Many European leaders distrust Mr. Trump, who says he sees them less as allies than as competitors. But if moving closer to China once seemed like...

“I give great thanks to the government that now we have a chance to save these memories,” she said. After more than two years in power, the Law and Justice party and its leader, Jaroslaw Kaczynski, have reshaped the judicial...

Drivers in difficulty… pic.twitter.com/UijAFelDrE Stuck on @CalSleeper outside Edinburgh. Whiteout through the window and it’s snowing through the joints INSIDE the carriages. #snow pic.twitter.com/M5jyDoS3oO Not the world’s biggest snowman – but someone’s built a very happy chappy on the @HouseofCommons...

The skit was set in Kenya, home to a new Chinese-built railroad between the capital, Nairobi, and the coastal town of Mombasa that is part of China’s Belt and Road development initiative. Dancers dressed as zebras, giraffes, lions and antelopes...